Trump is not respecting the ideology of post WW2 democratic norms. That said, this is a world order that isn't really all that old. What is happening here is probably less historically odd than modernity would like to admit.
I'm not appalled by Trump any more than I am about the world order that he is opposing. NATO should have been disbanded after the fall of the USSR. It is now following Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Tyranny comes in many forms.
I swear, many act like the Panama Papers, Wikileaks, and Snowden never happened. Like we don't know how often and consistently power has been abused for the last century. Is Trump a strong man that is using his power to reshape the world? Yep. He is. Now what?
He rose to power due to the frustration of a significant number of people with the status quo. Most that oppose him actually seem to hate Trump's supporters. Oh, if it were so simple as to pin all this on one man. Its not. Trump will die and our problems will remain.
Trump is not respecting the ideology of post WW2 democratic norms. That said, this is a world order that isn't really all that old. What is happening here is probably less historically odd than modernity would like to admit.
I'm not appalled by Trump any more than I am about the world order that he is opposing. NATO should have been disbanded after the fall of the USSR. It is now following Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Tyranny comes in many forms.
I swear, many act like the Panama Papers, Wikileaks, and Snowden never happened. Like we don't know how often and consistently power has been abused for the last century. Is Trump a strong man that is using his power to reshape the world? Yep. He is. Now what?
He rose to power due to the frustration of a significant number of people with the status quo. Most that oppose him actually seem to hate Trump's supporters. Oh, if it were so simple as to pin all this on one man. Its not. Trump will die and our problems will remain.